Managers are no help, work is piled on and many assignments are issued at last minute requesting you stay until done - not a good situation if you have classes or need to pick up kids. Many workers are very pushy - requesting that manager directions be ignored. Constant back stabbing - teams do not always work together. For a technology company workers are using very old computers and audio video equipment is not Alwyn set up correctly.

You get a paycheck every two weeks. The office is located near good restaurants and shopping.

Cons

Management team has little knowledge so it's hard to learn anything of value from them. Benefits are very mediocre. Little room for advancement. Not innovative. Little planning, no metrics, bad attitudes, no team environment.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Listen to you your experienced employees, build reasonable plans and goals and execute on them successfully as a team.

24*7 work they want.any failure goes to developer side, as it is there duty only.management is poor,lack of field specialist always affect project deadlines.no proper channel for communication.so many fake deadlines without any sense.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

please do something for employee welfare,please take employee concern seriously, so they feel comfortable.

I worked with Systemax for less than a year and there is nothing good to talk about:- Had to work in outdated technology- Had to work long extra hours to meet unrealistic deadlines- I was given a set of unrealistic deadlines every week by my manager, for which I had to work almost 12-15 hours every day.- Appraisals were pathetic and I was never given a good reason as to why they were bad.- A lot of times there were differences in opinion between my manager and my manager's manager which would eventually lead to more work for me.- Many of my colleagues had to leave the company because of bad higher and lower management.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Employees are not happy the way they are treated. The organization runs on the shoulders of your employees, listen to them, keep them happy.Change the mid and lower management guys they are ruining your company.Identify and respect talent, a lot of the talented people are not given good opportunities by their managers.

Entropic management systems, upward feedback is neither encouraged, asked for, or listened to.Communication, management issue decrees and do not foster an inclusive team.Archaic processes and procedures.No communication of expectations, appraisal process is a joke.No training plans, no encouragement to advance knowledge.Ideas plagiarised by management for their own advancement.The organisation is not mature enough to realise, that the 'quiet teams' are more productive, than the teams that are shouting and 'fire fighting' problems of their own making (lean six sigma).

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Management need to learn to be leaders and not bosses. Quote: YOU don't build a business. YOU build people and then PEOPLE build the business.Implement a robust appraisal system, with definitive objectives and a training plan to help employees achieve them.Communicate the company strategy and adhere to the stated company values.

- Fast decision making- You can make an influence at any levels and it's visible right away- Usually good team spirit- Young organisation = still shaping, you can influence- Office environment is nice, location is awesome

Cons

- Ultimate Chaos... at ALL levels...- Totally inadequate and unprofessional management- Unskilled operational staff, many new grads = combined with the above mentioned management is a disaster- Ridiculously unsocial working hours, nothing as promised or stated in your contract- Working on bank holidays are mandatory, holidays are managed by your manager not by yourself (even if you don't want to go, they will send you on holiday if they want it like that)- You never know if your overtime will be paid or not (but not much chance for excitement, usually it won't...)- Silos, silos everywhere through the whole EMEA organisation- Unnecessary amount of stress, pushed to all levels by top management